CONCEPTUAL DISPROOFS OF GOD
Contents:
1. SINGLE ATTRIBUTE DISPROOFS
2. MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES DISPROOFS
3. LOGICAL EVIL DISPROOFS
4. DOCTRINAL DISPROOFS
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1. SINGLE ATTRIBUTE DISPROOFS
Creator and designer disproofs
Quentin Smith,
“Causation and the Logical Impossibility of a Divine Cause,”
Philosophical Topics 24 (1996): 169-91
www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/causation.html
Gilbert Fulmer,
“The Concept of the Supernatural,”
Analysis 37 (1976/77): 113-16
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 326-29
http://analysis.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/3/113.full.pdf
Gilbert Fulmer,
"A Fatal Logical Flaw in Anthropic Principle Design Arguments,"
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 49 (2001): 101-110
www.springerlink.com/content/t71070460010314h
Richard D. Kortum,
“The Very Idea of Design: What God Couldn’t Do,”
Religious Studies 40 (2004): 81-96
Omnibenevolence disproofs
Theodore Guleserian,
“Can Moral Perfection Be an Essential Attribute,”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (1985): 219-41
Earl Conee,
“The Nature and the Impossibility of Moral Perfection,”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (1994): 815-25
J. Gregory Keller,
"On Perfect Goodness,"
Sophia 49 (2010): 29-36
https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/3207/On_Perfect_Goodness.pdf
Omnipotence disproofs
J. L. Cowan,
“The Paradox of Omnipotence,”
Analysis 25 (1965/supplement): 102-108
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 330-36
http://analysis.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/Suppl-3/102.extract
J. L. Cowan,
“The Paradox of Omnipotence Revisited,”
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1974): 435-45
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 337-48 www.jstor.org/stable/40230457
Douglas Walton,
“The Omnipotence Paradox,”
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (1975), pp. 705-15
Douglas Walton,
“Some Theorems of Fitch on Omnipotence,”
Sophia 15, no. 1 (1976): 20-27
Reprinted in L. Urban & D. Walton (eds.), The Power of God: Readings on Omnipotence and Evil (1978), pp. 182-91
www.springerlink.com/content/3637585t0p637335
Loren Meierding,
“The Impossibility of Necessary Omnitemporal Omnipotence,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (1980): 21-26
Tzachi Zamir,
“The Omnipotence Paradox as a Problem of Infinite Regress,”
Sophia 38, no. 1 (1999): 1-14
www.springerlink.com/content/rw3jrv732013vj34
Omniscience disproofs
Limit of the known disproof
Roland Puccetti,
“Is Omniscience Possible?”
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 41 (1963): 92-93
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 379-80
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048406312341561
Indexicals disproof
Patrick Grim,
“Against Omniscience: The Case from Essential Indexicals,"
Noûs 19 (1985): 151-80
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 350-52
Patrick Grim,
“The Being That Knew Too Much,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 47 (2000): 141-54 (esp. 141-44)
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 408-21 (esp. 409-12)
www.pgrim.org/pgrim/Being.pdf (esp. pp. 2-6)
Disproofs from expressive incompleteness and internal incompleteness
Patrick Grim,
“Logic and Limits of Knowledge and Truth,”
Noûs 22 (1988): 341-67 (expressive esp. 347-51, 354-56; internal esp. 351-56)
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 381-407 (expressive esp. 387-90, 393-95; internal esp. 390-95)
Set of all truths disproof
Patrick Grim,
“Logic and Limits of Knowledge & Truth,"
Noûs 22 (1988): 341-67 (esp. 356-59)
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 381-407 (esp. 395-98)
Patrick Grim,
“The Being that Knew Too Much,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 47 (2000): 141-54 (esp. 147-52)
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 408-21 (esp. 414-19)
www.pgrim.org/pgrim/Being.pdf (esp. pp. 10-19)
Disproofs from propositional vs experiential knowledge
John Lachs,
"Professor Prior on Omniscience,"
Philosophy 38 (1963): 361-64
Ryan Stringer,
"Omniscience and Learning" (2010)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/ryan_stringer/learning.html
Rob Lovering,
“Does God Know What It's Like Not to Know?”
Religious Studies 49 (2013): 85-99
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0034412512000194
Collections of single attribute disproofs
Patrick Grim,
“Impossibility Arguments,”
in M. Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (2007), pp. 199-214
www.scribd.com/doc/97285322/Grim-Impossibility-Arguments
Nicholas Everitt,
"The Divine Attributes,"
Philosophy Compass 5, no. 1 (2010): 78-90
www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00264.x/abstract
2. MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES DISPROOFS
Omniscience vs omnipotence disproof
David Blumenfeld,
“On the Compossibility of the Divine Attributes,”
Philosophical Studies 34 (1978): 91-103
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 220-31
Yujin Nagasawa,
“Divine Omniscience and Experience: A Reply to Alter,”
Ars Disputandi (2003)
www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000098/article.pdf
Omniscience vs omnibenevolence disproofs
Michael Martin,
“A Disproof of the God of the Common Man,”
Question 7 (1974): 115-24
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 232-41
Douglas P. Lackey,
“Divine Omniscience and Human Privacy,”
Philosophy Research Archives 10 (1984): 383-92
http://secure.pdcnet.org/pra/content/pra_1984_10_0_0383_0392
Omnipotence vs omnibenevolence disproofs
Joel Thomas Tierno,
“Omnibenevolence, Omnipotence, and God's Ability to Do Evil,”
Sophia 36, no. 2 (1997): 1-11
www.springerlink.com/content/8007123045j77136Wes Morriston,
"Omnipotence and Necessary Moral Perfection: Are They Compatible?"
Religious Studies 37 (2001): 143-60
http://spot.colorado.edu/~morristo/omnipotence-and-necesary-moral-perfection.pdf
Wes Morriston,
"Are Omnipotence and Necessary Moral Perfection Compatible? Reply to Mawson,"
Religious Studies 39 (2003): 441-49
Omniscience vs immutability disproof
Norman Kretzmann,
“Omniscience and Immutability,”
Journal of Philosophy 63 (1966): 409-21
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 198-209
www.ditext.com/kretzmann/omni.html
Agency vs omniscience disproof
Tomis Kapitan,
“Omniscience and Agency,”
Religious Studies 27 (1991): 105-120
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 282-99
www.niu.edu/phil/~kapitan/pdf/AgencyandOmniscience.pdf
Tomis Kapitan,
“The Incompatibility of Omniscience and Intentional Action: A Reply to David P. Hunt,”
Religious Studies 30 (1994): 55-66
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 300-12
www.niu.edu/phil/~kapitan/pdf/IncompatibilityofOmniscienceandIntentionalAction1994.pdf
Agency vs omni attributes disproof
Matt McCormick,
“The Paradox of Divine Agency,”
in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 313-22
www.csus.edu/indiv/m/mccormickm/DivineAgency.htm
Agency vs disembodiedness disproofs
Adel Daher,
“The Coherence of God-Talk,”
Religious Studies 12 (1976): 445-65
Kei Nielsen,
“God, Disembodied Existence and Incoherence,”
Sophia 26, no. 3 (1987): 27–52
www.springerlink.com/content/m31x0773t8402247
Consciousness vs omnipresence disproof
Matt McCormick,
“Why God Cannot Think: Kant, Omnipresence, and Consciousness,”
Philo 3, no. 1 (2000): 5-19
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 213-22
www.philoonline.org/library/mccormick_3_1.htm
Collections of multiple attributes disproofs
Michael Martin,
"Divine Attributes and Incoherence,"
in Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1990), pp. 286-316
www.questia.com/library/7612749/atheism-a-philosophical-justification
Michael Martin,
"Omniscience and Incoherence,"
in G. Holmstrom-Hintikka (ed.), Medieval Philosophy and Modern Times (2000), pp. 17-34
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-4227-4_2
Theodore M. Drange,
“Incompatible-Properties Arguments: A Survey,”
Philo 1, no. 2 (1998): 49-60
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 185-97
www.infidels.org/library/modern/theodore_drange/incompatible.html
3. LOGICAL EVIL DISPROOFS
J. L. Mackie,
“Evil and Omnipotence,”
Mind 64 (1955): 200-12
www.ditext.com/mackie/evil.html
H. J. McCloskey,
“The Problem of Evil,”
Journal of Bible and Religion 30 (1962): 187-97
H. J. McCloskey,
“Evil and the Problem of Evil,”
Sophia 5, no. 1 (1966): 14-19
H. J. McCloskey,
God and Evil (1974)
Mark Walker,
"The Anthropic Argument against the Existence of God,"
Sophia 48 (2009): 351-78
www.nmsu.edu/~philos/documents/anthropic-argument-dec-2008.doc
Richard R. La Croix,
"Unjustified Evil and God's Choice,"
Sophia 13, no. 1 (1974): 20-8
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 116-24
Hugh LaFollette,
“Plantinga on the Free Will Defense,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 22 (1980): 123-32
www.hughlafollette.com/papers/Plantinga_on_the_Free_Will_Defense.pdf
J. L. Mackie,
“The Problem of Evil,”
The Miracle of Theism (1982), pp. 150-76
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 73-96
www.questia.com/library/2987311/the-miracle-of-theism-arguments-for-and-against-the
Heimir Geirsson and Michael Losonsky,
"Plantinga and the Problem of Evil,"
The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 8 (2006): 109-13
Gabriel Horner,
"Impaled by the Two Horns of Logic: Omnipotence and Free Will,"
Quodlibet 2, no. 4 (2000)
www.quodlibet.net/articles/horner-logic.shtml
Quentin Smith,
“A Sound Logical Argument from Evil,”
Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language (1997), pp. 148-56
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 106-15
A. M. Weisberger,
"The Logical Formulation,"
Suffering Belief: Evil and the Anglo-American Defense of Theism (1999), pp. 29-40
Jordan Howard Sobel,
“The Logical Problem of Evil,”
Logic and Theism (2004), pp. 436-95
Robert P. Lovering,
“Divine Hiddenness and Inculpable Ignorance,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 56 (2004): 89-107
Raymond D. Bradley,
“The Free Will Defense Refuted and God’s Existence Disproved” (2007)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/raymond_bradley/fwd-refuted.html
J. L. Schellenberg,
“The Atheist’s Free Will Offence,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 56 (2004): 1-15
J. L. Schellenberg,
“God, Free Will, and Time: The Free Will Offence Part II,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (2011): 1-10
www.springerlink.com/content/71g0823njj3312m7
4. DOCTRINAL DISPROOFS
Disproofs from heaven and hell
Michael Martin,
“Problems with Heaven” (1997)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/heaven.html
Michael Martin,
“More on Heaven” (2004)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/more.html
Yujin Nagasawa, Graham Oppy, and Nick Trakakis,
"Salvation in Heaven?"
Philosophical Papers 33 (2004): 97-119
www.yujinnagasawa.com/resources/heaven.pdf
Richard Schoenig,
“The Argument from Unfairness,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 45 (1999): 115-28
Theodore Sider,
“Hell and Vagueness,”
Faith and Philosophy 19 (2002): 58-68
http://tedsider.org/papers/hell.pdf
Gina M. Sully,
"Ominbenevolence and Eternal Damnation,"
Sophia 44, no. 2 (2005): 7-22
www.springerlink.com/content/94427w7562133353
Disproofs from prayer
David Basinger,
“Why Petition an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Wholly Good God?”
Religious Studies 19 (1983): 25-41
David Basinger,
“Petitionary Prayer: A Response to Murray and Meyers,”
Religious Studies 31 (1995): 475-84
Richard Schoenig,
“The Logical Status of Prayer,”
The Southern Journal of Philosophy 35 (1997): 105-18
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-6962.1997.tb00828.x/abstract
Michael Veber,
“Why Even a Believer Should Not Believe That God Answers Prayers,”
Sophia 46 (2007): 177-87
www.springerlink.com/content/q23762xn927445r6/fulltext.pdf
Disproofs from miracles
George D. Chryssides,
“Miracles and Agents,”
Religious Studies 11 (1975): 319-27
James A. Keller,
“A Moral Argument Against Miracles,”
Faith and Philosophy 12 (1995): 54-78
www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=faithphil_1995_0012_0001_0054_0078&file_type=pdf
Christine Overall,
“Miracles as Evidence Against the Existence of God,”
The Southern Journal of Philosophy 23 (1985): 347-53
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 147-53
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-6962.1985.tb00404.x/abstract
Christine Overall,
“Miracles and God: A Reply to Robert A. H. Larmer,”
Dialogue 36 (1997): 741-52
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 154-66
Christine Overall,
“Miracles and Larmer,”
Dialogue 42 (2003): 123-35
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7141800
Christine Overall,
“Miracles, Evidence, Evil, and God: A Twenty-Year Debate,”
Dialogue 45 (2006): 355-66
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5452644
Disproofs from revelation
Richard R. La Croix,
"The Paradox of Eden,"
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 15 (1984): 171
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 127-28
www.springerlink.com/content/r757128201214921
Niclas Berggren,
“The Errancy of Fundamentalism Disproves the God of the Bible” (1996)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/niclas_berggren/funda.html
Raymond D. Bradley,
"A Moral Argument for Atheism,"
The New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist (spring 2000): 2-12
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 129-46
www.infidels.org/library/modern/raymond_bradley/moral.html
Theodore M. Drange,
“The Arguments from Confusion and Biblical Defects,”
in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 369-79
www.infidels.org/library/modern/theodore_drange/confusion.html
“Unjustified Evil and God’s Choice,”